The Department of Agriculture has forecast that U.S. food prices will increase between 3 percent and 4 percent this year. Food inflation is starting to appear in supermarkets and restaurants, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Wizapalooza, the benefit to raise funds for the medical bills of the late Albany bartender John Wisniewski, brought in thousands of dollars on Saturday, a family representative tells me (a final tally is not yet complete). The event, held at the Albany Ancient Order of Hibernians hall, featured food from a number of area restaurants, live music […]
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Today’s column was inspired by a Guilderland High School student named Tony Pitkin, who sent me a long tale about how a Valentine’s Day dinner with his girlfriend at The Standard Restaurant & Lounge at Crossgates Mall was marred by a drunk, disruptive patron, and the restaurant’s later efforts to make it up to them. […]
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Thanks to the puzzle fans who turned out this afternoon for the first Wolff’s Biergarten/Times Union Hope Fund Crossword Challenge featuring New York Times puzzles donated by the paper’s crossword editor, Will Shortz. The event was sold out. About 100 participants attempted the first puzzle, with those who completed it correctly moving on to the […]
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Update: This event is essentially full, with only a few slots unreserved as of Friday. Would-be participants may be able to secure a position to compete in the event of no-shows, but it is not guaranteed. Original post: The Times Union and Wolff’s Biergarten in Albany are co-presenting The Crossword Challenge, a two-round contest starting […]
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Sam Sifton, the smart and funny chief dining critic for The New York Times since fall 2009, will deliver a lecture at 7 p.m. Monday, March 7, in Palamountain Hall, on the campus of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. The talk is free and open to the public.
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Indulge restaurant in Latham, which opened in May on Route 2 between Latham and Watervliet, has been closed since mid-January. A sign on the door originally announced that a several-week closure for winter vacation would end Feb. 9, but that never occurred, and a reader reports that an eviction notice has been affixed to the […]
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Table Hopping reader Christian Noe of Cropseyville, right, won the judges’ award for best home-cooked mac-n-cheese for his Buffalo-wing-influenced dish. Noe’s mac-n-cheese bested versions by 10 other readers, all of whom were invited to participate in last weekend’s Table Hopping/timesunion.com Mac-n-Cheese Bowl to benefit the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York. More than 1,600 […]
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